CLARKCOUNTY, ILLINOIS MILITARY DATABASERemember
our Clark County patriots. Some lie in national cemeteries. Some sleep
in hometown graves. Some never made it home. But all have
something in common. They made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our
country, our
freedom
and our quality of life.

MINNESOTA REGIMENTS
(UNION)

1st Minnesota
Infantry, Company F

Jackson, Elisha A. (or
O.) (York)
According to one record, he served in the 1st Minnesota Cavalry,
however, I found no record of him in the regiment. His name did appear
on the roster of the 1st Minnesota Infantry. Elisha Jackson Enlisted
04/29/61, Discharged 08/01/61. Rank, Private. Unwounded. Born,
01/01/43, Died, 03/25/01. Was only 19 when he enlisted. He served
briefly in Company F, from
April 29, 1861 to August 1st of that year, when he was discharged for
disability.Sources: Roster of the First Minnesota
Infantry, 1910.

History of the 1st
Minnesota Infantry (From Apr - Aug, 1861)
The first Regiment tendered to the government, April 14, 1861.
Organized under first call at Fort Snelling, Minn., and mustered in
April 29, 1861, for three months. Reorganized for three years May 10,
1861, to date from April 29, 1861. Companies "B" and "G" moved to Fort
Ridgly, Minn., May 28. Company "A" moved to Fort Ripley May 29. Company
"E" moved to Fort Ripley June 6, and Companies "C" and "D" moved to
Fort Abercrombie June 10. Rejoined Regiment at Fort Snelling under
orders for Washington, D. C., June 21. Moved to Washington, D. C., June
22-26, and to Alexandria July 3. Attached to Franklin's Brigade,
Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, to
August, 1861. Stone's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October,
1861. Gorman's Brigade, Stone's (Sedgwick's) Division, Army of the
Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps,
Army of the Potomac, to February, 1864, Dept. of the Northwest to May,
1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to July,
1865.

SERVICE.-Advance on Manassas, Va., July 16-21, 1861. Battle of Bull Run
July 21. Moved to Seneca Mills, Md., August 2-7, thence to near
Edward's Ferry, August 16, and duty guarding Upper Potomac till
February, 1862.
Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 177 Enlisted men killed
and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 97 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 286.